Can Bob come back to Modern?
Modern forum
Posted on Nov. 1, 2015, 8:46 p.m. by aeonstoremyliver
Many Aggro decks in the meta make Bob pretty bad, despite his amazing CA and synergy with Goyf and LoTV. Given that Modern is somewhat varied ATM, is Dark Confidant playable again over the vast scheme of things, or entirely meta dependent?
zyphermage says... #3
Bob would've been very bad in the Dallas open this weekend. I saw it first hand in my matches and based on the feature matches of burn and zoo.
November 1, 2015 9:04 p.m.
Bob started to fall out of style thanks to Forked Bolt during the Treasure Cruise phase of Modern and the rise of Delver. But now he's just a removal magnet b/c of the CA he can produce. Lots of spells in Modern kill him outright, and that's no-bueno.
November 1, 2015 9:09 p.m.
fluffybunnypants says... #5
Jund is an extremely reasonable deck to play.... I'm not sure we'll see him as 4 ofs for a bit, but I've never been sure that I've ever wanted to see two Bobs on my board at the same time.
November 1, 2015 9:16 p.m.
Bobs main issue is the decks that wanna run him want to run tasigur as well and those two nombo.
November 1, 2015 10:22 p.m.
Jund is the #2 deck in the format right now, and it runs 4 Bobs. He hasn't gone anywhere.
November 1, 2015 11 p.m.
Jund runs 4 Bobs and is the number 2 deck in the format. As has been said. He's not bad. Even against aggro you just use him as a chump blocker. You are under no obligation to like, keep him around on the board until you lose lots of life. He is even being played in Abzan as well every now and again.
November 2, 2015 2:33 a.m.
Khanye only needing one bob to finish the most expensive deck in the format isn't too bad a problem.
November 2, 2015 6:20 a.m.
@dan8080 Still I run 4 Bob and 1 Taz in my Jund-list. The odds of taking 6 are really low.
I don't know what OP is talking about. Bob is a 4-of in every Jund-list, and Jund is currently T1.
November 2, 2015 6:57 a.m.
gnarlicide says... #12
yeah, not sure what you are talking about OP. BGx STILL loves bob. The one copy of Tas is no issue at all. I have flipped him off bob once, and still won.
I honestly don't know what to say here.
November 2, 2015 7:04 a.m.
aeonstoremyliver says... #13
I noticed Bob fell out of favor for quite some time. Mayhap I should crawl out from under my rock then? Lol
I suppose that due to the responses, my inquiry is more than answered.
November 2, 2015 8:46 p.m.
I have died many times to a Bob flipping a banana king, but yolo, so it's ok.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #2
Did Bob leave...?
November 1, 2015 8:53 p.m.